Bob W wrote: >I went to a talk once by Philip Jones-Griffiths, Magnum photographer famous >for his book Vietnam, Inc. The film Apocalypse Now! ripped the book of quite >comprehensively. In particular, there is a scene where a VC soldier is dying >in the arms of some GI, having fought on with his guts hanging out and now >begging for water. Robert Duvall's character says something like 'Any man >who can fight with his guts hanging out can drink from my canteen any time' >and makes to offer the VC soldier his canteen. But before the soldier takes >it, Duvall is distracted and walks away, splashing water on the ground and >not giving any to the VC. > >The composition of the scene, and the text, are identical to >Jones-Griffiths' book. During the talk he said that Magnum approached >Coppola, pointed out the similarities, and asked for the royalties. PJ-G >said "he responded with those immortal Hollywood words 'Sue me!'". Magnum >couldn't afford to take him on, so he got away with it. > >If it's that difficult for Magnum, so much more so for Joe TriXpack.
That's a weird story - in the U.S. it costs nothing to sue for copyright in the end because you get to make the infringer pay your legal costs (assuming you've registered your copyright and I can't imagine Magnum wouldn't have!) I suspect there's more to this story than what you were told. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
